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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HART SHARP VIDEO
EAN: 0829567032220
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Arts Alliance Amer
Manufacturer: Arts Alliance Amer
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Arts Alliance Amer
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 6331
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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When the students of a tennessee middle school began studying the holocaust nobody could have predicted the results. The children started collecting paper clips to help visualize the vast number of victims and their efforts culminated in a unique memorial that changed the lives of everyone involved. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 08/14/2007 Run time: 84 minutes
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Paper Clips is an inspiring 2004 documentary about a consciousness-raising project that blossomed into something beautiful at a rural Tennessee school. When the principal of Whitwell Middle School sought a program that would teach diversity to a predominantly white, Protestant student body, the notion of focusing on the Holocaust--specifically Hitler's extermination of six million Jews--seemed like an obvious way to go. But understanding what 'six million' looks like became a challenge. Thus was born the idea of collecting that number of paper clips at Whitwell as a visual reference.
But then it turned out paper clips actually have, in historical terms, symbolic value where the Holocaust is concerned. In this moving film, one sees Whitwell students dig into research on Germany's genocidal campaign, solicit clips from a variety of leaders and celebrities, and make a name for themselves on the national news. In time, the world comes to Whitwell's doorstep, via unsolicited donations of clips from people around the world, and in a tearful meeting of students and Holocaust survivors. The dimensions of the project, the lessons about prejudice and intolerance, are stunning to watch grow beyond anyone's wildest expectations. This is a great film for families and classrooms to watch together. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Paper Clips: A must see film for all who care about not only educating children, but changing their lives forever
PaperClips is a true story about the Principal of a middle school in a small, rural, farming community in Tennessee. Fully aware that most of the children have had little exposure to world history, and in particular, the Holocaust, her dream is to find a teacher who would be willing to devote the year to the study of this subject. When a teacher steps forth, both she and the Principal discover that the children are sensitive, responsive, eager to reach out to survivors, and to create a memorial to all who lost their lives because they were Jewish. The story is spellbinding and uplifting, reflecting teaching at its' very best.
Rating: - Paper Clips
An outstanding documentary. I recommend this inspiring story to anyone seeking to enhance a study of the Holocaust.
Rating: - Never Forget!
I had heard of this documentary through a colleague. Without previewing it, I immediately ordered it and waited approximately 6 weeks to receive it. Over the past two years, I have shown this film to both 11th & 12th graders in my US History as well as to teachers in my graduate course. The reactions are always the same...shock and resolve. You see, my students are learning disabled and, if they had lived during this very dark time in history, probably would not have survived this horrific experience. They could identify with those, who through no fault of their own, were persecuted because of the very fact that they were different from the majority.
If you are looking for a film that brings home the fact that this terrible occurrence needs to be remembered by all, this is the one! It reaches across ethnic, cultural and educational boundaries in order to bring home the message that we must never, never forget the injustice done and that we must make absolutely certain that this will never be allowed to happen again!!!
Rating:  - The Power of an Idea
My daughter came home charged from watching PAPER CLIPS at her school. She begged for her own copy, so our family settled in to humor her by watching it. Oh, my! What inspiration! We were moved at the sensitivity of the producers in creating a documentary that could have been sappy and sentimental but that is, instead, powerful and moving in its simplicity. As a mom, I'm thrilled to have this documentary in our home collection. As a teacher, I'm excited beyond words to return to my classroom to move our students toward tolerance within our school community and beyond and to demonstrate the power of an idea!
Rating: - Too good to be true?
The video was especially touching to me, a Jew, and (now former) teacher of children this age. I was born and have lived in Tennessee over half my life in small town similar to Whitwell. It hurt me deeply because I lamented how great it would be if my own community could become so enlightened. It is not. The few Jews here suffer from the same ignorant undercurrent they experience as a non-Christian minority in many places. I no longer teach because of that two-faced gentile hate for Judaism including from those who teach. So when I saw the film it seemed almost too good to be true.
I made contact with the principal featured in the film. I am sure that a few teachers may have been greatly effected by what they learned and then initiated as an exercise against intolerance, and I am sure that most if not all the children were greatly effected for the good. Not all schools would have taken on such a difficult and perhaps controversial project. But I also know that most principals are opportunists (and expected to be) who will do almost anything to promote their school to get money and news/media coverage. That is the feeling I got here also.
But I went to Whitwell, which is close to Chattanooga (you can get on 26 to Jasper, TN and up 127 north to Whitwell), to reconnoiter this area. And of course I wanted to see the boxcar full of paper clips representing the number of victims of systematic murder under the Nazis in Europe and objects from holocaust victims.
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